Since schools in Kenya were forced to close due to the lockdown, teachers have been communicating with the children and with each other via WhatsApp. Since hardly anyone owns a computer, but many do have a smartphone, using this mobile phone app for sending pictures and texts and for video chat was…

The coronavirus pandemic has also reached Brazil. There it is hitting an ailing health system and families who cannot hope for support from the state. The Projeto Salva Dor – place where children can play freely, have safe spaces and receive three meals a day – had to close, like the rest of…

After the first cases of Covid-19 in Georgia, a curfew was imposed, which also affects the curative-educational Michael School in Tbilisi. Classes were continued online as quickly as possible, as Marina Shostak, one of the school’s teachers, recounts: “For a while we have already been working online…

In Russia too, schools have been closed for several weeks. There is a strict curfew in Moscow, Initially until the end of May. Only those working in systemically important professions are allowed to go to work. The Rostok Waldorf School is situated on the outskirts of Moscow. In a letter to their…

The lockdown also impacts the small rural Waldorf School Humane School in Kitale. Juliet Mia, principal and teacher of the school recounts: "The present situation is not easy for us and everyone else in the country, because some small businesses have been put on hold pending further instructions…

Following the instructions of our management board and the precautionary measures instituted by the government of Pakistan, our institution is currently closed. Consequently, we had to send our friends with special needs home and they have been advised to stay there. We are in constant communication…

The small town of Hawzien in northern Ethiopia has been the site of a Waldorf Kindergarten since 2006 and of an associated school since September 2014. The parents can only pay symbolic amounts to the school and kindergarten. School founder Atsbaha Gebre-Selassie and his colleagues are almost…

The coronavirus pandemic is having a dramatic impact worldwide, including in Kenya. The first case of Corona in Kenya was reported on 12 March in a residential area near the Mbagathi School. Since Monday, March 15, schools have been closed nationwide. Despite the spontaneous closure and limited…

In India, too, schools were closed in mid-March - including the small Darbari Waldorf School in Rajasthan. The school in northwestern India is primarily attended by the children of the Bhil people, one of the largest indigenous tribes in India. Despite the official abolition of the caste system, the…